Wednesday, May 24

What Do You Do With The Mad You Feel?

Here's a wonderful clip of Mr. Rogers appearing before a 1969 US Senate committee that was deciding whether to cut funding in half (from 20 million to 10 million) to the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Would it make me a softy to say that my eyes filled with tears watching this? His care and concern and soft-spoken gentleness is an inspiration. I was never a fan of the program Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, but I always had respect for the man.

2 comments:

I grew up with TFC, and I don't recall ever watching Mr. Rogers. However, when my son was three, he *had* to watch Mr. R every day on PBS. A while ago, I was almost going to tape over the episodes I had recorded....couldn't bring myself to do it.